Year help: I am just so angry with Social Security Dept ! - Help.com

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ugh, i know how you feel :(
im not in the states, but in my country a claim of mine just got rejected by our equivelent.
its so incredibly stressful and makes you feel less than worthy as a human.
i suggest you find an advocate or free lawyer who specialises in this. i just googled it and found one in my area.
seriously, its so good. takes all the stress off you, and they know the ins and outs of the laws.

id say you can, again, im not sure because im not fromt he states.
but seriously, if youre going to get into legalities like that, youll for sure need a lawyer. lil’ ol you against social security dept? not a fair fight without someone who knows the ins and outs.

the first step would be a review of decision though. have you googled advocates in your area?

Hi, I was googling something and had a link here. I’m in the first appeal myself but I found a wonderful resource that I wanted to just tell you about as it has helped me.

There is an MSN Group called “Social Security Disability Coalition”. You could google that name and it will probably be the first link listed. They have lots of sample forms and tons of information. It is also a good place for advice. I used the sample letter and wrote my politicans have they can assign a case worker to you which gives you priority. I don’t know how your daughter is making it. My Mom took me in or I would be on the streets and with my health couldn’t make it there.

Good luck.

Hi, just wondering how your daughter is doing. I have not been on the site for a while now due to my own health and also due to my battle with this same process. I attended a class on SSDI last weekend at the Wellness Community and was told the biggest factor that probably hurt my case was my age. I had come across a chart some where. It is hard to get if you are under 55 years of age and also understanding english is another factor that works against you.

If your daughter can find a social worker and get that type of advocate it might help. I am doing that now and it is really helping. This experience is too much on top of having health problems.

I don’t know if her condition includes something rare but I also know the SSA-Washington is looking at their list of approved conditions and asked the NORD organization for input to see which rare diseases they should add to the list.

I no longer participate in the coalition I mentioned to you. I changed my user name trying to use more positive energy and the group manager banned me. Brighter Blessing to me just means brighter - better and blessings - something positive you have been waiting for or a benefit. She insisted I was as religious as her and I can’t afford more added to my plate. But I did find what I think is better information in a Yahoo group ” i> small>(email removed) /small> /i>” and maybe that would help you. Best of luck.

I too have lost everything and I can’t believe what this puts us through. I would say if you haven’t already, try contacting nonprofit orgs like the American Heart Association and see if you can find advocacy because this is just to hard to do alone. Frankly when I learned I was “too young” to be deemed disabled….well that made me angry too because illness doesn’t discriminate like this program does.

Is Disability Secrets the website by Brian Therrian? If so, he has pod casts and conference calls with a lot of good information.